Amanda Smullen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Smullen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Smullen |
| SIGNATURE | SMULLEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4023-0380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conflictual Accountability
In contemporary public governance, leaders of public organizations are faced with multiple, and oftentimes conflictual, accountability claims. Drawing upon a survey of CEO’s of agencies in seven countries, we explore whether and how conflictual accountability regimes relate to strategic behaviors by agency-CEO’s and their political principals. The presence of conflictual accountability is experienced as a major challenge and is associated with im…
Understanding Felt Accountability
The literature on autonomous public agencies often adopts a top‐down approach, focusing on the means with which those agencies can be steered and controlled. This article opens up the black box of the agencies and zooms in on their CEO's and their perceptions of hierarchical accountability. The article focuses on felt accountability, denoting the manager's (a) expectation to have to explain substantive decisions to a parent department perceived t…
Public Sector Reform in Ireland
Comparing the Health Care Systems of High‐Performing A sian Countries
The newly industrialised and high income economies of E ast A sia perform remarkably well on a range of health system indicators. We adopt an institutional lens to examine and compare the similarities and differences in health care financing and provision in the paired cases of S ingapore, M alaysia, T aiwan and S outh K orea. This illuminates how, despite seemingly common global, regional and functional demands, reformers have responded through …
Not Centralisation but Decentralised Integration through Australia's National Mental Health Policy
This article challenges dominant perceptions of Commonwealth centralisation in Australia's federal system. While recognising the Commonwealth has entered a range of policy fields not anticipated by federal founders, it argues this does not equate to a generalised unidirectional and hierarchical orchestration of state/territory functions. The crucial case of mental health policy is presented as an alternative scenario in Australia's federal experi…
Conceptualising Australia's tradition of pragmatic federalism
This article reviews existing scholarly debates about Australia's pragmatic federalism and seeks to refine it conceptually. It does so against the background of burgeoning international governance literature informed by insights from philosophical pragmatism, as well as in the context of disjuncture in Australian inter-governmental experiences. Pragmatic federalism is posed not merely as a one-dimensional notion referencing a series of ad hoc int…
Cultural change or cultural paradox? The continuities and discontinuities in Dutch official agency talk
This article analyzes Dutch official agency talk over the period of the 1990s for the purpose of examining culture and cultural change. Following from Hood (2000 Hood, C. 2000. The art of the state, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), it applies Grid Group Cultural Theory and the New Rhetoric as both complementary and competing perspectives on culture. It shows that, while the complementary perspective enables pattern…
Translating Agency Reform Through Durable Rhetorical Styles
This article directs attention to the role of ideational variables in shaping public management reform initiatives. It considers the contribution of both endogenous rhetorical styles and exogenous international fashions in explaining official agency talk in consensus and adversarial contexts. Departing from an earlier observation that convergence in talk across contexts is more likely than convergence in practice (Pollitt 2001), this article demo…
Agencies
Many countries now use agencies rather than ministries to deliver central government services. There have been many claims about the benefits of organizing and delivering government in this way, but t
Agency fever? Analysis of an international policy fashion
In the last 15 years, the governments of many OECD countries have transferred a wide range of functions to new, agency-type organizations. Allowing for the fact that, for comparative purposes, it is difficult precisely to define agencies, and further acknowledging that in many countries agencies are far from being new, it nevertheless remains the \ncase that there seems to have been a strong fashion for this particular organizational solution. Th…
Agency fever? Analysis of an international policy fashion
In the last 15 years, the governments of many OECD countries have transferred a wide range of functions to new, agency-type organizations. Allowing for the fact that, for comparative purposes, it is difficult precisely to define agencies, and further acknowledging that in many countries agencies are far from being new, it nevertheless remains the \ncase that there seems to have been a strong fashion for this particular organizational solution. Th…
Understanding Felt Accountability
The literature on autonomous public agencies often adopts a top‐down approach, focusing on the means with which those agencies can be steered and controlled. This article opens up the black box of the agencies and zooms in on their CEO's and their perceptions of hierarchical accountability. The article focuses on felt accountability, denoting the manager's (a) expectation to have to explain substantive decisions to a parent department perceived t…
Conceptualising Australia's tradition of pragmatic federalism
This article reviews existing scholarly debates about Australia's pragmatic federalism and seeks to refine it conceptually. It does so against the background of burgeoning international governance literature informed by insights from philosophical pragmatism, as well as in the context of disjuncture in Australian inter-governmental experiences. Pragmatic federalism is posed not merely as a one-dimensional notion referencing a series of ad hoc int…
Conflictual Accountability
In contemporary public governance, leaders of public organizations are faced with multiple, and oftentimes conflictual, accountability claims. Drawing upon a survey of CEO’s of agencies in seven countries, we explore whether and how conflictual accountability regimes relate to strategic behaviors by agency-CEO’s and their political principals. The presence of conflictual accountability is experienced as a major challenge and is associated with im…
Translating Agency Reform Through Durable Rhetorical Styles
This article directs attention to the role of ideational variables in shaping public management reform initiatives. It considers the contribution of both endogenous rhetorical styles and exogenous international fashions in explaining official agency talk in consensus and adversarial contexts. Departing from an earlier observation that convergence in talk across contexts is more likely than convergence in practice (Pollitt 2001), this article demo…
Cultural change or cultural paradox? The continuities and discontinuities in Dutch official agency talk
This article analyzes Dutch official agency talk over the period of the 1990s for the purpose of examining culture and cultural change. Following from Hood (2000 Hood, C. 2000. The art of the state, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), it applies Grid Group Cultural Theory and the New Rhetoric as both complementary and competing perspectives on culture. It shows that, while the complementary perspective enables pattern…
Agency fever? Analysis of an international policy fashion
In the last 15 years, the governments of many OECD countries have transferred a wide range of functions to new, agency-type organizations. Allowing for the fact that, for comparative purposes, it is difficult precisely to define agencies, and further acknowledging that in many countries agencies are far from being new, it nevertheless remains the \ncase that there seems to have been a strong fashion for this particular organizational solution. Th…
Agencies
Many countries now use agencies rather than ministries to deliver central government services. There have been many claims about the benefits of organizing and delivering government in this way, but t
Cultural change or cultural paradox? The continuities and discontinuities in Dutch official agency talk
This article analyzes Dutch official agency talk over the period of the 1990s for the purpose of examining culture and cultural change. Following from Hood (2000 Hood, C. 2000. The art of the state, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), it applies Grid Group Cultural Theory and the New Rhetoric as both complementary and competing perspectives on culture. It shows that, while the complementary perspective enables pattern…
Translating Agency Reform Through Durable Rhetorical Styles
This article directs attention to the role of ideational variables in shaping public management reform initiatives. It considers the contribution of both endogenous rhetorical styles and exogenous international fashions in explaining official agency talk in consensus and adversarial contexts. Departing from an earlier observation that convergence in talk across contexts is more likely than convergence in practice (Pollitt 2001), this article demo…
Conceptualising Australia's tradition of pragmatic federalism
This article reviews existing scholarly debates about Australia's pragmatic federalism and seeks to refine it conceptually. It does so against the background of burgeoning international governance literature informed by insights from philosophical pragmatism, as well as in the context of disjuncture in Australian inter-governmental experiences. Pragmatic federalism is posed not merely as a one-dimensional notion referencing a series of ad hoc int…
Comparing the Health Care Systems of High‐Performing A sian Countries
The newly industrialised and high income economies of E ast A sia perform remarkably well on a range of health system indicators. We adopt an institutional lens to examine and compare the similarities and differences in health care financing and provision in the paired cases of S ingapore, M alaysia, T aiwan and S outh K orea. This illuminates how, despite seemingly common global, regional and functional demands, reformers have responded through …
Not Centralisation but Decentralised Integration through Australia's National Mental Health Policy
This article challenges dominant perceptions of Commonwealth centralisation in Australia's federal system. While recognising the Commonwealth has entered a range of policy fields not anticipated by federal founders, it argues this does not equate to a generalised unidirectional and hierarchical orchestration of state/territory functions. The crucial case of mental health policy is presented as an alternative scenario in Australia's federal experi…
Public Sector Reform in Ireland
Conflictual Accountability
In contemporary public governance, leaders of public organizations are faced with multiple, and oftentimes conflictual, accountability claims. Drawing upon a survey of CEO’s of agencies in seven countries, we explore whether and how conflictual accountability regimes relate to strategic behaviors by agency-CEO’s and their political principals. The presence of conflictual accountability is experienced as a major challenge and is associated with im…
Understanding Felt Accountability
The literature on autonomous public agencies often adopts a top‐down approach, focusing on the means with which those agencies can be steered and controlled. This article opens up the black box of the agencies and zooms in on their CEO's and their perceptions of hierarchical accountability. The article focuses on felt accountability, denoting the manager's (a) expectation to have to explain substantive decisions to a parent department perceived t…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Agency (philosophy (4 works) · Business (4 works)